Surf City, New Jersey

Surf City population, 2020 to 2024

Surf City added 46 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.7%. In the latest year it moved by +5.

Surf City covers 0.74 square miles of land and 0.58 of water, for 1,754 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Surf City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Surf City is in

All of Surf City's residents live in Ocean County, which had 666,434 residents in 2024. Surf City holds 0.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Surf City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Surf City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 08008. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a borough that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Surf City is

The Census internal point of Surf City is at 39.664300, -74.171600. Trenton, the capital, is 49.4 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Tuckerton, NJ (3,701 people), 9.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Philadelphia, PA, 56.3 miles away.

Daylight in Surf City

At 39.66° N, Surf City gets about 14 h 59 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 22 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 37 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Surf City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Ship Bottom, 1.4 miles away, with 1,125 people.